Sven Holbik Courses

Climate Change

3 ratings

Explains how Earth's climate system changes, the evidence for human influence, and effects of warming on oceans, sea ice, acidity, marine life, and sea level.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 6 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Mountain Building

Explores how subduction, continental collisions, and crustal forces build mountain belts, from volcanic arcs and the Himalayas to erosion-driven uplift.

• YouTube
• 46 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Earthquakes

An introductory geology lecture explains how fault slip generates seismic waves, how scientists locate and measure earthquakes, and why hazards such as tsunamis occur.

• YouTube
• 49 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Tides (OCE-1001)

Explore the fascinating world of tides, their causes, and effects on Earth's oceans. Learn about lunar influences, tidal patterns, and coastal impacts in this comprehensive overview.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 2 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Marine Sediments

Marine sediments preserve records of Earth’s climate, tectonics, ocean circulation, and biological history while providing resources such as sand, phosphates, and manganese nodules.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 12 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Sedimentary Rocks

Learn how weathering, transport, deposition, and lithification create sedimentary rocks that preserve evidence of Earth’s environments and past life.

• YouTube
• 38 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Igneous Rocks Lecture

Learn how magma cooling history, mineral composition, and texture classify igneous rocks as intrusive or extrusive formations.

• YouTube
• 44 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Weathering, Soils and Mass Wasting

Trace how weathering breaks down rock, soils develop, and erosion and mass wasting move Earth's surface materials.

• YouTube
• 38 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Crustal Deformation and Mountain Building

Explains how stress deforms rocks into folds and faults, and how tectonic compression, erosion, and isostasy build and reshape mountain belts.

• YouTube
• 46 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Volcanoes

Explore how magma composition, temperature, and dissolved gases control volcanic eruptions, from lava flows and volcano types to hazards, intrusive activity, and plate boundaries.

• YouTube
• 47 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Plate Tectonics

Explore how continental drift became plate tectonics, with evidence, plate boundaries, seafloor spreading, magnetic reversals, and the forces driving plate motion.

• YouTube
• 59 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Metamorphic Rocks

Explore how heat, pressure, and metamorphic environments transform rocks, producing distinctive minerals, textures, grades, and rock types.

• YouTube
• 48 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Shorelines

An introduction to dynamic shorelines, coastal landforms, wave-driven sediment movement, hurricanes, and shoreline stabilization.

• YouTube
• 51 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Shorelines - Redwood National Park

Explore shoreline features, coastal processes, erosion, wave-cut landforms, and stabilization through a geology lecture centered on California’s Redwood National Park.

• YouTube
• 35 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Geologic Time Lecture

Learn how geologists reconstruct Earth’s history using relative dating principles, fossils, stratigraphic correlation, and radiometric techniques.

• YouTube
• 55 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video